Motivational Quotes

Music

There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

- Armstrong, Louis

Best Quotes about Music

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

Zappa, Frank

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.

George Eliot

Music is a readily available, highly effective tool that you use to improve both your cognitive and physical abilities.

Winter, Arthur

If music be the food of love, play on; give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.

William Shakespeare

Like everything else in nature, music is a becoming, and it becomes its full self, when its sounds and laws are used by intelligent man for the production of harmony, and so made the vehicle of emotion and thought.

Mungers, Theodore

It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of culture.

Cage, John

The English may not like music, but they absolutely love the noise it makes.

Beecham, Sir Thomas

To know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of a man after his studies or his usual pain?

William Shakespeare

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It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

Johnson, Samuel

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The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Thoreau, Henry David

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A symphony is a stage play with the parts written for instruments instead of for actors.

Wilson, Colin

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Wagner's music is better than it sounds.

Edgar Wilson Nye

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You are the music while the music lasts.

Eliot, T. S.

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I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Nixon, Richard M.

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Music and dancing (the more the pity) have become so closely associated with ideas of riot and debauchery among the less cultivated classes, that a taste for them, for their own sakes, can hardly be said to exist, and before they can be recommended as innocent or safe amusements, a very great change of ideas must take place.

Herschel, Sir John

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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.

Carlyle, Thomas

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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.

Pound, Ezra

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Give me a laundry list and I'll set it to music.

Rossini, Gioacchino Antonio

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Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

G. K. Chesterton

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I'm not going to be joining ZZ Top. You know they can't play my stuff. It's too complicated.

Brown, James

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A jazz musician is a juggler who uses harmonies instead of oranges.

Green, Benny

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Music when healthy, is the teacher of perfect order, and when depraved, the teacher of perfect disorder.

Ruskin, John

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A verbal art like poetry is reflective; it stops to think. Music is immediate, it goes on to become.

Auden, W. H.

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Mozart is sweet sunshine.

Dvorak, Antonin

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Good music is very close to primitive language.

Diderot, Denis

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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

Yoko Ono

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Without Elvis, none of us could have made it.

Holly, Buddy

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Words are poor interpreters in the realms of emotion. When all words end, music begins; when they suggest, it realizes; and hence is the secret of its strange, inexpressible power.

Haweis, H. R.

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Music is a discipline, and a mistress of order and good manners, she makes the people milder and gentler, more moral and more reasonable.

Martin Luther

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If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.

Rattle, Simon

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There is two kinds of music the good and bad. I play the good kind.

Armstrong, Louis

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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.

Mascagni, Pietro

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Rock 'n Roll is an asylum for emotional idiots.

Neville, Richard

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There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.

Mann, Thomas

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Sir Edward Appleton

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Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.

Cosby, Bill

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She was one of those people who said I don't know anything about music, but I know what I like.

Beerbohm, Sir Max

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If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. Therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

Schumann, Robert

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People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever.

Schumann, Robert

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You're talking to someone who really understands rock music.

Gore, Tipper

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Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

Beethoven, Ludwig Van

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Hearing often-times the still, sad music of humanity, nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power to chasten and subdue.

Wordsworth, William

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Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue.